Scaling Your Business Starts with Effective Management

You can’t be sure when it’s time to scale and expand your business until you’re fully confident.

Confidence starts with knowing the difference between scaling and expanding – and growing with the help of your culture and employees.

If you rush the process, you risk growing too fast. If you wait too long, you’ll lose potential revenue and profit.

Expansion is a reactionary mode and occurs as your company starts to accelerate. Your customers respond well to your marketing and customer service, and you need to hire just to keep up with the demand.

But hiring in a knee-jerk reaction always leads to problems such as settling for the wrong employees.

So, scaling is the best way to go. Scaling is all about planning and developing repeatable best practices – operating efficiently and creating systems to grow effectively and exponentially.

This means having proven systems for operations, sales and marketing.

Culture

But scaling must start with management of your people. They must be supportive of your vision, values and culture. Of course, they must be well-trained.

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“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

-John Henry Newman

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Author Terry Corbell has written innumerable online business-enhancement articles, and is a business-performance consultant and profit professional. Click here to see his management services. For a complimentary chat about your business situation or to schedule him as a speaker, consultant or author, please contact Terry.